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Recently, a research team from the Chinese University of Science and Technology achieved a significant breakthrough in the ...

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A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

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Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...